Then and Now

Stonehouse Wheelers member number 2, Peter Coleman went to the boat graveyard at Purton in 1968 and took a picture of a Kennet barge called Harriett and part of the lighter Dursley in the foreground. The Stonehouse Wheelers went to Purton today and I thought that it was a fitting opportunity to capture the scene again. The top timbers have gone and the grass doesn't seem to be grazed any more. And no trace of the railway bridge remains. The success of the boat graveyard scheme in protecting the canal bank can be seen in how much land has been reclaimed from the Severn.
Today

From blogpics

1968

From Severn Railway Bridge and Purton

Ajax

Back to work after a fine holiday and some new technology to learn. The Google Web Toolkit is a mighty fine thing but the learning curve is steep. After spending two days of reading books and web pages I was not much wiser. Then I found Lars Vogel and his page at http://www.vogella.de/articles/GWT/index.html and the mist cleared. Thanks Lars.